AWDLC: Accessible-Website Development Life Cycle
8 Pages Posted: 14 Jun 2019
Date Written: March 20, 2019
Abstract
Web portals are increasingly being used as excellent media to reach out to a wider user group irrespective of the nature of the organization be it government or business enterprise. Since more and more people are depending on websites for information access as well as various types of transactional applications, the design and features of websites play a crucial role from the user-friendliness point of view. Thus, lot of emphasis has been laid for developing effective websites. Standards such as “Web Content Accessibility Guidelines” (WCAG) have raised different requirements for websites in order to make them accessible to a wider range of users irrespective of their background and physical disabilities. This necessitates adoption of an engineering approach right from requirement analysis till the development of a full-fledged website and even beyond. Towards this end, we propose a Website Development Life Cycle approach referred as AWDLC, in order to facilitate building of accessible websites that are user- friendly in terms of design, content, assistive features, and online support. We elaborate on each step of the lifecycle approach which can address the growing requirements of accessible websites.
Keywords: Web Accessibility, WCAG 2.1, Website, SDLC
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